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Quorn is bringing hundreds more jobs to Teesside in the next five years, as the diggers move in on a £7m innovation facility.

The new HQ at Stokesley will create a “high tech powerhouse” for the global brand in the North-east, following a 12% jump in like-for-like sales to £112m compared with 2017.

And the Quorn effect - the company is now one of the biggest food advertisers in the UK - has had a “direct impact” on the explosion of new vegetarians, vegans and “flexitarians” says company chief Kevin Brennan.

And he repeated his belief that Quorn can become a billion-pound business in the next decade.

The firm created 100 new jobs last year, taking headcount to 750.

And it expects to create the same again as work proceeds on a fourth fermenter at its Billingham plant on Nelson Avenue.

The latest development is the first time the business has built a “dedicated global innovations facility”.

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Kevin said: “Our category has grown very strongly and we have to keep making better products

“We have led the way in the UK, we are one of the biggest UK advertisers in food now - and that has had a direct impact on numbers taking up the [meat-free] category.

“The UK has more and better products than anywhere in the world, it has made it one of the fastest-growing and most successful categories.”

And the company does not see it as a short-term trend.

Kevin Brennan, Chief Executive of Quorn Foods, is pictured at the company's premises in Stokesley

Kevin added: “It’s a generational shift; customers are more educated are realising it’s about health and sustainabilily.

“They don’t eat in the same way as their parents.

“We are confident the category will grow, and that’s why we are making some very large investments on the back of that.

“We’ve already started on the fourth fermenter, by the time we have finished one project we are building something else. “We’re proud to be doing this in the North-east and in the next ten years, we expect there to be a continual progression with hundreds of new jobs, alongside construction and building work.”